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Subscribers

last updated Jan 10 2018

There are 2795 freesurfer mailing list subscribers (includes those who do not receive messages but can post).

To determine this number, login to the administrative interface of the freesurfer mailing list, click 'Membership Management', and the total number of users is shown italicized in the middle. This number includes those who have opted to not receive the mailings. To subtract who has opted to not receive emails, each of the 20 or so pages of the membership list must be checked (tedious, but this takes about five minutes, versus trying to figure out how this info is stored in the bowels of the mailing list server).

Monthly Post Counts

To get this data, nmr-help can get the raw message-list data from the mail server, where you'll ask them to run this, then they send you the output file 'fsmsgraw.txt':

Documentation

which is available in SystemInfo. ( Note that as this counts only the non-system pages, it's a more accurate measure )

lines

date

90370

june2011

80681

july2010

Where the lines are defined by the number of carriage returns. The number of lines of every page in the wiki is in PageSize , which is exported to a text file and the second column is summed. Note that the PageSize of any moinmoin wiki shows the number of bytes of each page. To change it to the number of lines, the wiki engine (Python) is slightly modified.